Chapter 302: Good Night

Chi Yingyu’s fingertip paused on the screen, and she suddenly remembered the first time she met Jiang Lai.

Back then she was still in school, a bit young, and she didn’t even know what love was. Coming home from school, she saw a boy in a white shirt sitting on the living room sofa, his sleeves rolled up to his forearms, revealing hands with distinct wrist bones, sitting together with her sister.

Hearing the door-opening sound, Jiang Lai looked up at her. Her eyes were as clean as the sky after rain. This first impression of Jiang Lai was also the source of everything.

“So Jiefu was already so popular back in university?”

Chi Yingyu lowered her voice, afraid of waking the person in her arms, but her fingertip couldn’t help but lightly trace on the back of Jiang Lai’s hand. Since what the two of them were chatting about was no longer anything private, they simply started chatting softly. If Jiang Lai woke up, at worst the three of them could just chat all night, and that would be fine too.

“Were there really a lot of competitors around Sister back then? Sister… I’ve never heard you talk about this kind of thing before.”

Shen Ruxue looked at the delight under her younger sister’s eyes, like seeing the look of her childhood self holding candy and pressing for stories, and couldn’t help but curve the corners of her mouth.

She also turned on her side and adjusted her posture, letting Jiang Lai lean more comfortably, but at this moment her gaze was entirely on her own younger sister.

“Her? She never noticed any of that. In university, I still remember, during a big lecture when class broke midway, Jiang Lai went out for a trip and came back to see an extra love letter on the desk she had just been sitting at, a beautiful letter, no matter how you looked at it, it was a love letter. But Jiang Lai thought it was someone’s way of saving a seat. Jiang Lai’s personality is the kind where if she can have one less thing to deal with, she will. So she didn’t even suspect anything and hurriedly switched to another empty seat with no one there. It was really so funny.”

Chi Yingyu covered her mouth and laughed muffledly, her shoulders trembling slightly, which caused Jiang Lai to unconsciously shrink a little further into her embrace, warm breath falling on her wrist, making her instantly soften her movements.

“Sister, weren’t you jealous back then? If someone tried to compete with me for Jiang Jiang now, I’d definitely get angry with her. Of course, Sister, you definitely wouldn’t be included in that. You’re not only special to Jiang Jiang, but even more so to me.”

“How could I not be jealous?”

Shen Ruxue’s fingertip gently brushed over Jiang Lai’s reddened earlobe, her tone carrying a soft trace of nostalgia.

“Someone asked her to eat together, to go out and play together. Even if it was only within a normal social range, I would still feel jealousy. My possessiveness toward Jiang Lai in the past probably reached a level you couldn’t even imagine.”

“If it were the university version of me facing our current situation, I absolutely would not have allowed us to be together like this. But time really can change a person. In the past, I thought day and night about wanting to return to Jiang Lai’s side, for the two of us to be together again, to go back to how things were. But as time slowly passed, what I wanted was no longer so much. As long as I can still be by Jiang Lai’s side, I am already very happy, very satisfied.”

“Is part of the reason you compromised like this because of me?”

“That too. But these are all things of the past. At least now we can even chat properly together on one bed. I think whether possessiveness exists or not no longer matters. Right now I am incomparably happy, and that is enough.”

Chi Yingyu’s fingertip gently stopped on the back of Jiang Lai’s hand. Feeling her sister’s openness, feeling that her sister was willing to wrong herself for her happiness, she couldn’t help but feel a bit heartache.

Chi Yingyu lowered her voice even more, afraid of disturbing the person in her arms.

“Sister, I used to always think that if you liked someone, you should hold her in your hand. But now I understand, seeing her happy is more important than anything.”

Shen Ruxue looked at the soft light under her younger sister’s eyes, and suddenly remembered when she had first gotten together with Jiang Lai.

“If Jiang Lai said a few more words to others, she would secretly sulk. Back then she was always afraid Jiang Lai would be taken away by someone else, even Jiang Lai and colleagues… You being able to think this way, Sister is very happy.”

Shen Ruxue reached out and gently tucked the loose hair scattered on Chi Yingyu’s cheek behind her ear, her movements as gentle as if she were protecting a fragile treasure.

“Then from now on, let’s get along like before.”

Shen Ruxue looked at how happy her younger sister was and nodded with a smile. “Okay, Sister!”

“Then let’s sleep in a little while. If we chat too late, neither of us will be able to get up tomorrow.”

As soon as she finished speaking, she looked down at Jiang Lai, who was squeezed in the middle, and couldn’t help reaching out to gently poke Jiang Lai’s cheek. The soft touch made the corners of her mouth rise.

“Let’s sleep a little earlier too. Jiang Lai is probably already having happy dreams.”

“I feel like when she wakes up is when she’ll be at her happiest…”

Chi Yingyu reached out and gently pinched Jiang Lai’s earlobe, then unconsciously tightened her arm. Jiang Lai seemed to be slightly uncomfortable from being squeezed, her brow lightly furrowing as she let out a very soft hum. But Chi Yingyu didn’t notice, taking it as her having a sweet dream. Instead, she rested her chin on Jiang Lai’s shoulder, closed her eyes, and enjoyed this rare warmth.

Shen Ruxue looked at her younger sister completely immersed like this, shook her head helplessly, but didn’t say much. She only gently adjusted her posture, making herself, Jiang Lai, and Chi Yingyu all more comfortable.

“So hot… so tight… I can’t breathe…”

Jiang Lai had been stifled awake. Her consciousness had just floated out from the chaos when she felt as if her whole body had been wrapped in warm cotton. On the left, soft hair strands were brushing against her neck, and the breath carried a faint milky scent. It was Ying Yu.

The arm on the right was wrapped around her waist, fingertips still lightly resting on her lower abdomen, body heat passing through the thin pajamas. It was Xiaoxue.

The two of them seemed to have treated her as the pillow in the middle. Their arms and legs were almost all tangled around her, not even leaving a gap to turn over.

She blinked with effort. She could see Ying Yu’s head tilted on her shoulder, the corners of her mouth still carrying a shallow smile. Who knew what good thing she was dreaming of. It looked like she had completely forgotten what she had said during the day about leaving her some space.

Jiang Lai sighed helplessly and tried to move her arm. But the moment she lifted it half an inch, Ying Yu seemed to sense it, her arm tightening again, and she unconsciously nuzzled into her embrace.

With that, Jiang Lai completely didn’t dare move anymore, worried that her movement would wake the two of them.

She could also clearly feel the warmth of Ying Yu’s palm against her back, Xiaoxue’s cheek gently leaning against her arm. The breaths of the two intertwined, wrapping the air around her until it all became warm and soft.

Even though she was being held so tightly that she was a bit breathless, her heart felt as if it had been soaked in warm water, softened into a complete mess. Actually, being depended on by them like this didn’t seem so bad.

Jiang Lai thought about it, then gave up on the idea of changing her sleeping position. Although sleeping as three people like this was a bit crowded, a bit hot, it wasn’t impossible to sleep. And even if she couldn’t sleep, Jiang Lai wouldn’t blame the two people beside her for disturbing her. Having this outcome only meant that she simply wasn’t sleepy at all…